Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Chicago is the sickest city in America. Chicago is disgustingly stupid. . . . Chicago can't create a great [World's] fair. Chicago isn't big enough to arrest and protect Chicago's own society from the vicious operations of one little Al Capone. Chicago collectively is a municipal coward that no longer deserves the respect of a civilized world...
...crime is not to be treated with crime, what is one to do with the vicious creatures whom the combination of slum environment, bootlegging, and a certain indigenous American lawlessness have bred in teeming swarms? The first step seems to be to bring the penitentiary system out of its almost medieval sloth, and to coordinate penology with science. Psychology and research have discovered that a prisoner's future record will depend but little on the crime he was incarcerated for, but more importantly on his home environment, his habits, and his character. Thus to herd in one ensemble first offenders...
...lunch-counters and racketeering, "The Killers." But Robertson's comedy is far above par; in his own chatter and the comments of a crowd of rubberneckers gathered about the murdered detective, his idiom bears comparison with that of the great Ring W. Lardner. When the play is not vicious, it is continuously funny...
...consider that the last ten years has shown that it is absolutely impossible to enforce. It has led to more crime, more corruption, more hypocrisy than any other law. . . . People say if you mop up the wet spots in cities the thing is done. I have never seen more vicious drinking in my life than I have seen in Indiana and in South Carolina. I have never gone anywhere in the country where the liquor law was observed...
...sustain the early morning hours, while no spark of humanity lightens the chatter of female upon female, the monotony of drink upon drink. The debutante, overshadowed by the impersonal magnitude of her hospitality, loses the spontaneity that might have kept the stage from the bottle and thus broken the vicious circle...